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13%OFFPeter Reading - -273.15 - 9781852246792 - V9781852246792
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-273.15

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Description for -273.15 Paperback. Poetry at absolute zero. Num Pages: 64 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 5. Weight in Grams: 116.
After mapping Britain's national decline over thirty years through 25 books of poetry, Peter Reading reinvented himself as a writer in his 21st-century work. The bitter social critic became poetry's Millennial prophet of doom, directing his venom and sorrow at the destruction of the world's wildlife and environment. -273.15 [absolute zero] was his first new collection since his three-volume Collected Poems. The book is a lament, a tirade, a disaster warning, and an anthropologist's catalogue of our final expedition addressed to an earlier survivor of global catastrophe, Noah of the Flood. He published his final collection, Vendange Tardive, in 2010. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
56
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852246792
SKU
V9781852246792
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About Peter Reading
Peter Reading (1946-2011) was born in Liverpool. After studying painting at Liverpool College of Art, he worked as a schoolteacher in Liverpool (1967-68) and at Liverpool College of Art, where he taught Art History (1968-70). He then worked for 22 years as a weighbridge operator at an animal feedmill in Shropshire, a job which left him free to think, until ... Read more

Reviews for -273.15
Despair, both environmental and political, is never absent; but this is an appreciative, defiantly humane volume.
Robert Potts
Guardian

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